Re: PDFKit on 10.12
Re: PDFKit on 10.12
- Subject: Re: PDFKit on 10.12
- From: Kyle Sluder <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:10:50 -0500
On Wed, Oct 5, 2016, at 04:08 AM, Jonathan Mitchell wrote:
>
> > On 5 Oct 2016, at 07:52, Antonio Nunes <email@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > On 04 Oct 2016, at 14:26, Jonathan Mitchell <email@hidden> wrote:
> >>
> >> PDFKit seems a bit disturbed on Sierra.
> >> The 10.12 beta 3 seems to improve things but there are still some rendering stutters etc.
> >
> > 1. Why are you referring to a beta, when 10.12 has been out for weeks now?
>
> Oops. that should have been 10.12.1 Beta (16B2338c)..
>
> > Whatever is going on with PDFKit, it’s not good.
>
>
> I agree with that.
>
> PDFKit is long in the tooth and the documentation is a bit patchy.
> However there is no way I can just write it off.
>
> My solution involves assembling multipage PDFs from templates that
> incorporate a static base PDF over which I write text derived from my
> object model.
> The composed PDF is then viewed, printed or exported.
> On 10.9 to 10.11 peace reigns.
>
> The 10.12 issues are rather unpredictable.
> Some documents render fine others don’t.
> Obviously this makes tracking down the source of the issues tough.
> It also makes it difficult to come up with meaningfully directed bug
> reports to send back in to bugreporter.apple.com.
>
> It would be helpful if someone from the PDFKit development team would
> chip in with insight into how the kit has changed in 10.12.
>
> If not I might need to go down the route of a TSI.
The first thing DTS will ask you is, “what are your bug numbers?” So
work on filing those first. A minimally-useful bug report is better than
no bug report at all.
--Kyle Sluder
>
> Jonathan
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